What's sad (and also, in a way, fucking great) is that if this interview played anytime before season 3, it would have been a fairly accurate description of Carol's one-dimensional character. Thank God one of the writers realized the extent to which they were wasting Melissa McBride's myriad talents.

Best episode since Clear - and just like in that episode, no major villain was introduced, and no main, secondary, or even ancillary character died. The showrunners would do well to recognize what ISN'T required of this series to make it great.

"I'm so many people." - Sally Draper

Team Octavindra all the way

Fluid dynamics, indeed!

Reason #100 for Finn to be dead and stay dead, forever. I've never physically thrown anything at my TV before, but man if bloody ghost Finn reappears over Lexa's shoulder the next time she and Clarke make out, that might change.

I got a lot of shit for calling out the awkward, patronizing way that First LGBT Kiss moment played out on the last week's episode of The Walking Dead. The main rebuttal to my complaint was that I was just one of those people who would read too far into any scene, polluting it with my political leanings. Problem is I…

What's awesome about Lexa and Clarke's kiss (besides the obvious potential plus of having a main character in a teen drama in an unforced, non-gimmicky same-sex relationship) is that it served as a perfect metaphor for how to survive even the most desperate of struggles: by finding an elegant balance between ruthless…

What was so surprising and refreshing about that scene was that it didn't feel like there was a male gaze going on at all, which is so customary for "girl-on-girl" scenes in film and television, especially when the character age range matches those of the youths in The 100. I say this obviously as a male… gazing… but…

In order for Jerry to win by write-in vote the majority of Pawnee's voting public has to ACTUALLY KNOW what Jerry's first and last name is. Wait in addition to being hilarious that's actually quite moving. Oh my God I'm crying again.

Funniest joke of the finale, and perhaps one of the funniest jokes of the entire series: when Purd announces that Jerry/Garry/Larry/Terry Gergich won the official mayoral race by WRITE-IN votes. I had to pause my DVR because I was crying with laughter.

we knew those characters quite well by then (as well as you can know two-dimensional characters, anyway), and each of those tearful reunions never affected other characters' perceptions of Glenn and Maggie.

Can we all observe a moment of silence to mourn the fact that Timothy Olyphant is not playing Rick Grimes?

Conspicuously beatific. Them's the words I was looking for. Thank you for articulating my knee-jerk progressive position more succinctly than I could.

Or an equally plausible scenario: maybe it's just that The Walking Dead is way too obvious about a LOT of things, and that obviousness just happened to bleed into a moment that coincidentally included its first gay kiss.

Honestly, and this is just my opinion - that scene wouldn't have existed if a straight Eric came to have a sweet moment with his Girlfriend. The problem with that scene had nothing to do with VIEWERS making a big deal out of it, it's that the CREATORS were making a big deal out of it. It really isn't a damned if you…

Umm… I think maybe I wasn't being clear or that you were misinterpreting what I was trying to convey - what I was trying to say is that I felt like that scene played out PRECISELY like the scenario you described regarding the way some white people try to act overly familiar and too-comfortable around black people.…

Anybody else slightly bugged by the overcompensation and condescension involved in that whole Aaron = Gay reveal? Like: "Look how cute, these gay folks being all gay! [We definitely don't have any problem with this, do you, you goddamn bigots?] You cynical fool, Rick Grimes! How could this Aaron fella pose any threat…

"Why not Top Doctor?!"

if anyone inserts film burns into my posthumous tribute video - which by then will be composed from footage shot by sentient camera-operating robot drones that record our daily activities, thus making the concept of adding filmic effects to digitally processed footage even MORE irrelevant - i'm going to eat that…